Funeral for FM3c Williard I. Lawson (World War II)
Last November, DPAA announced that it had accounted for FM3c Willard I. Lawson, US Navy. FM3c Lawson was lost at Pearl Harbor, HI, on 7 December 1941.
FM3c Lawson will be buried later this week – on Saturday, 27 April 2019 – in Madison, Indiana. Regrettably, DPAA does not seem to have posted the specific location for his funeral or interment.
If any TAH readers have the precise location for either FM3c Lawson’s funeral or interment, please post it in comments below. And if any readers are in that area and have the time, here’s an opportunity to give someone lost during World War II a proper final send-off.
Category: Blue Skies, We Remember
Another one comes home to family. RIP now.
No joy, Hondo. Rest in peace on your home ground, Willard Lawson.
Rest in peace, shipmate.
Funeral/Internment info can be found at:
https://obittree.com/obituary/us/indiana/madison/lytle-welty-funeral-homes–cremation-service-vail-chapel/fireman-rd-class-willard-lawson/3810619/index.php
“Fireman 3rd Class Willard Irvan Lawson, USN, age 25, of Milton, Kentucky, passed away on Sunday, December 7, 1941 in Hawaii while serving aboard the USS Oklahoma during the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Born November 21, 1916 in Middletown, Ohio, he was the son of C.H. and Gertie Mae (Gunnell) Lawson.
F3c Lawson enlisted in the U.S. Navy on January 15, 1941 in Milton.
He is survived by two half-sisters: Janet Wilson of Middletown and Geneva Taylor of Monroe, Ohio, and several nieces and nephews.
His parents, three brothers, William, Leonard and Albert Lawson, and three sisters, Ann Moore, Mary Lutxehus and Margaret Ingles are now deceased.
Funeral services will be conducted at 1:00 PM Saturday, April 27, 2019 at the Indiana Veterans Memorial Cemetery, Madison, Indiana, with interment to follow.
An honor guard from the United States Navy will provide a final salute and military honors at the cemetery.
Lytle Welty Funeral Homes and Cremation Service, Madison, is in charge of the arrangements.
To send flowers to the family of Fireman, 3rd Class, Willard Irvan Lawson, please visit our Heartfelt Sympathies Store.”
Welcome Home again and Rest in Peace F3c Willard Irvan Lawson. We Salute Service and Honor the Sacrifice that you made for our Country.
Thanks to Hondo and MustangCryppie for these posts.
Hopefully someone will be able to represent us.
Welcome home brother. Rest in peace.
Question, individuals such as FM3c Lawson were buried in a rush after the attack on Pearl Harbor and were placed in unmarked graves, correct? This is why he was just recently IDed and buried by his family?
Reader’s Digest version, but yes, correct. Many of them could not be IDed at the time and it was only after the DNA testing was perfected enough to get samples from relatives that we have been able to truly Honor these men. It has been a long, slow process, some of the men don’t have close enough surviving relatives, and some of the relatives don’t know that this program exists.
Rest in Peace.